http://www.gustavholmberg.com/magnitude/2003/01/30/cabinet-of-curiosities/ Fri, 16 May 2008 21:00:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 http://www.gustavholmberg.com/magnitude/2003/01/30/cabinet-of-curiosities/#comment-452 Michela Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:50:01 +0000 http://www.gustavholmberg.com/magnitude/2003/01/30/cabinet-of-curiosities/#comment-452 The Cabinet of Curiosities is the personal (often eccentric) arrangement of a person's collection of objects. The horizontal alligator, the recessed cupboards and deep drawers with mermaids and shrunken heads are characteristic of the genre.The Cabinet was at its strongest in the seventeenth century and was gradually undermined by professional standards of curatorship. The Cabinet of Curiosities is the personal (often eccentric) arrangement of a person’s collection of objects. The horizontal alligator, the recessed cupboards and deep drawers with mermaids and shrunken heads are characteristic of the genre.The Cabinet was at its strongest in the seventeenth century and was gradually undermined by professional standards of curatorship.

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